Fan: I just wanted to know, since you guys have hired so many new upper management [personnel] this year, a lot of similar roles and a lot of great hockey minds together, who is going to make the game day decisions when it comes to the team?
Babcock: I think what happens when you have a team is the President makes the decisions he?s supposed, the manager makes the decisions he?s supposed to, and the coach makes the decisions he?s supposed to. When you?re making those decisions, we?ve all got feedback in all those situations. What I mean by that is Lou and I talk every single day. When the game is on, and I decide who is playing, when the game is on I?m making those decisions. When we go to trade a player, when we go to acquire a player, Lou?s talked to me in advance, I?ve talked to Lou, and in the end he?s got to make that decision. I think what happens is different people are making different decisions at different times, but we all have input. That doesn?t mean we all agree all the time. In the end, the coach coaches, the manager manages. That?s the way it works.
Shanahan: It?s important to know we have a tremendous amount of respect for each other. If I?m going to make a decision, I want to know what Lou thinks, I want to know what Mike thinks, and I want to know what Brandon Pridham thinks. We trust each other; we trust the privacy of one another, but we also know, like Mike said, we all have different jobs. It doesn?t mean we don?t want to lean on each other, but at the end of the day, Mike is on the bench and I can?t change the lines. We all have our own jobs to do. I think that it?s going to work very well. I have absolutely no concerns whatsoever about this group that we?ve put together.
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